Actually, I looked at those exact same cherry picked links yesterday.
I also saw several links explaining they were where the church bells were, AKA bell towers, used to call people to worship, and/or to be visible along the sky line or “watch towers” in a military function, which is obvious to a normal person when thinking about the crusades and knights, etc; without a liberal anti-Christian agenda or a liberal obsession with a phallus...
“The Encyclopedia Britannica states this of the spire: “[it is] a symbol of the heavenly aspirations of pious medieval men” (1979). The earliest of man’s “heavenly aspirations” is recorded in Genesis 11:4: “And they said, Go to, let us build a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven…”
Now, my church has no steeple, no bell tower, no bells that I’m aware of, but when I DO see an old church with a steeple, I certainly don’t think of paganism or phallic symbols, but I think of Charleston S.C. where no other building is allowed to be built higher, or even Paul Revere:
http://www.oldnorth.com/hist.htm
*Sigh*...To each his own I guess.
What’s clear is it’s impossible to know one way or another a single purpose existed or a single narrow definition excludes all other possibilities in each and every case, let alone any case.
I get so tired of liberals saying Christians shouldn’t celebrate Christmas or put up Christmas trees because of some pagan practice thousands of years ago.
Or we shouldn’t have steeples or Hitler was a Christan merely because he quoted scripture to the masses in Nurmeberg, blah blah blah.
Projecting about another’s laziness while proudly cherry picking liberal anti-Christian definitions in all of what? 5 minutes?? ... helps you HOW exactly on a Christian conservative site?
I believe that some posters are paid to be here.
Cherry picked? Only in your mind!
Bell towers and landmarks are excuses for continuing pagan symbolism and you are just another apologist for baal worship with a Christian name.
Steeples, Easter Eggs, Christmas Trees...make excuses and justifications to ease your conscience I don’t care.
A little leaven leavens the whole lump.